BRAZIL
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: Federative Republic of Brazil), is a sovereign country in South America comprising the eastern half of the continent and some groups of small islands in the Atlantic.With an estimated area of over 8.5 million km ², is the fifth largest country in the world in total area (equivalent to 47% of the South American territory) .10 Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Brazil has a coastline of km.11 7491 north borders the French overseas department of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela, on the northwest by Colombia; west to Peru and Bolivia, on the southeast by Paraguay and Argentina, and on the south by Uruguay. This borders on all South American countries except Ecuador and Chile. For the most part, the country is between the terrestrial tropics, so that the seasons do not feel in a radical way in much of the same. The Amazon rainforest covers 3.6 million square kilometers of its territory. Thanks to its vegetation and climate, is one of the countries with the most species of animals in the world.
SOCCER
Football is the most popular sport in Brazil. The football team has won five times World Cup Football Cup in 1958.1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. The volleyball, football, basketball, skateboarding, car racing and martial arts also are popular in the country.
In martial arts, Brazilians developed Capoeira practices like the vale tudo, and eljiu-jitsu. In auto racing, three Brazilian drivers have won eight times the world championship of Formula 1: Emerson Fittipaldi in 1972 and 1974, Nelson Piquet in 1981, 1983 and 1987 and Ayrton Senna in 1988, 1990 and 1991.Aunque are not as practiced and as followed as previously mentioned sports, tennis, elbalonmano, swimming and gymnastics have found many Brazilian fans over recent decades. Some variations of these sports had their origins in Brazil as playao soccer indoor soccer.ARMED FORCES
BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL
The Brazilian Carnival is an annual celebration that takes place forty days before Easter, marking the beginning of Lent, with variable date between February and March in the year. It has several variations with its European counterpart and also differences over the Brazilian territory. Although Catholic inspiration, its European origins back to a kind of carnival called Introit ("input" in Latin) and entrudo in Portuguese, which is characterized by the interplay of water thrown from one person to another to purify the body . The entrudo was banned without much success in the mid-nineteenth century, it was considered violent by the upper classes "is said that some people died from infections and other diseases because sometimes threw rotten fruit."
In the late nineteenth century, the cordões were introduced in Rio de Janeiro and consisted of groups of people walking through the streets playing music and dancing. The cordões were the ancestors of modern samba schools.
